Fake tan

Swinging or minging? I think it looks really weird, but I just thought I'd get a vox pop on it. I'm decidedly pale due to our complete lack of summer, and I must admit a modicum of temptation, but seeing some of the mahogany faced gentlemen propping up the local gay bars, I'm somewhat wary

The fake tans have a certain A&F je ne sais qui quality about them. The consistency of the tan renders it obviously fake and there is something about the eyes I find unsettling when I see fake tans (they seem to pop out more).

The fake tan has a poser surfer dude look to it as well, where I can picture the guy posing with a surf board for a summer holiday picture without having any experience surfing.

If you want a tan, please just go outside, gather up some radiation, and let your body react to it (apply sunscreen as needed and be aware of developing moles / sunspots you have).

I don't tan very much anyway, I just sort of turn a slightly warmer shade of white, but the summer's been so bad here that I'm starting to turn blue and consumptive looking. It's not good, really. Maybe I will go to Phoenix

My brother, (the Prince William look-alike) well, he's white as Casper! We always thought so, till one summer we went swimming and his chest was ACTUALLY whiter than his arms/legs, which as I said, we thought was the whitest thing on earth...

do not obsess over a tan. white is hot. hell i have lived in the desert for over seven years and i am the whitest white man u will ever meet! lol and my skin is the better for it. it will even thank me next month when turn 38 !!!! =)

seriously i use tanning cream once in a while just so i don't look dead and it looks good. the trick is to use a good tanner (I use Loreal sublime bronze without tint) and you have to mix it in with a moisturising lotion so that it is not too strong and so you tan evenly, don't use the tanners that are already mixed with moisturisers they cast a lot and work less. I also go to the tanning salon once in a while but i personally think it does nothing i have to go in the cabine with a self tanner on and accelerators so i see a difference but i don't tan very easily nor do i burn, thats why i use cream.

Maybe I shouldn't have an opinion on this (I don't tan, hehe) but whenever I see that obviously browned look it screams "FAKE" to me. It just looks bad and while I think a little color is preferable, that orange look is hard to take seriously.

my make-up artist and esthetician friends scold me repeatedly but i pay no mind to their freakouts about tanning. i like roasting myself, it feels nice and it does have some health benefits (vitamin d production, blah blah blah). for at least 6 years i was lifeguarding every summer spending everyday in the sun. i figure the occasional 10-15 mins in a bed won't have nearly as negative an effect as the years in the sun already have. what I won't do, however, is dye my skin orange with any crap self-tanner. i'm sorry, but they all suck.

No offence to anyone here, but fake tan looks ridiculous. It looks fake, but then I guess that is why you call it fake tan :) But saying that it maybe better than the real thing as the Irish cancer society says that the only safe tan is one out of a bottle.

I'd say it depends on the end result. People that can get away with fake tanning and not look it have my vote. People who end up looking orange aren't fooling anyone and should stop ASAP. I saw someone at a club the other month... he looked so orange he could probably glow in the dark. But then again maybe some people find orange sexy.

no no no - I tan from time to time, and mine doens't look fake. Now when one looks like they're auditioning for a role as an Oompah-Loompah, then yah, that's a bit over the top...but till then, fake doesn't ALWAYS look fake. That's a bit of a broad brush to paint with fellas!

I assume you are going to include the bearded dragon, or whatever that thing OW is sticking his tongue out at, in the your sculpture?

I don't tan, I just swim at an outdoor pool -- and yes, I slather myself in sunscreen, SPF 50 before I leave home -- but still I'm browner than one of my Mexican friends who goes to a tanning salon and uses the fake spray.